Creditors of women's clothing chain Shanton Fashion are owed almost $7.8 million, while the company has $3.35 million in assets, a wider shortfall than the $693,000 estimate directors gave when the company went into voluntary administration last month.

Over 70 per cent of elite college rugby players regularly use sports supplements, making them more likely to intentionally dope in the future, a survey finds.

The bad guys are always one step ahead. That was the reality with party pills and it is much the same with illicit fitness supplements.

The supplement salesman who won't lie about pre-workouts: "They have stupidly toxic amounts of caffeine. It drives you mental so you train like a crackhead."

An exercise supplement containing a banned psychoactive substance was still available for sale yesterday despite Ministry of Health officials deciding it should be pulled from shelves.

New Zealand shares rose to a new record close yesterday as holidays in Auckland and Australia kept trading volumes light.

Work started this week on the $36 million expansion of New Zealand's first shopping mall.

Spending last month was up $300 million on December 2013, fuelled in part by Christmas shopping, Boxing Day sales, and New Year's Eve holidaymakers.

Warehouse chief executive Mark Powell says it will be "a very difficult ask" for the group to beat last year's profits after it announced weaker-than-expected sales.

Warehouse shares have plunged today after it said profits for the first half of the financial year are likely to be down 20 per cent.

Mayor Len Brown has named big-brand international retailers Apple and Tiffany & Co as potential candidates to open their first New Zealand stores in Auckland.

For Kiwis scouring the shops for bargains today and the rest of sale season, don't rule out haggling your way to a discount.

Rihanna, the pop singer with multiple awards to her name, has been appointed women's creative director of Puma SE.

Kiwis have spent a total of $2.3b through Paymark so far this month with Christmas spending up 4.3%

Cooks Global Foods widened its first-half loss after buying the Canadian franchise rights to Esquires Coffee Houses.

Christmas spending is off to a strong start with, up 4.4 per cent on the same time last year.

As chief toy tester and buyer for Farmers, the 31-year-old has a big role choosing which toys will be hot at Christmas.

Christmas shoppers have bent the plastic, spending a whopping $2.3 billion in the first fortnight of December.

In NZ, our supermarkets won't even sign up to a code of conduct, let alone agree to legislation being debated, writes Dita De Boni. It's time for the Govt to step in.

In a reply to today's column by Dita De Boni on supermarket costs, Countdown managing director Dave Chambers addresses the issue of pricing.

Web retailers are offering shoppers speedy shipping, one-day upgrades and even promises to deliver last-minute orders by Christmas Day.

Kiwis increased their spending on debit and credit cards in November, with a rise in hospitality and consumable purchases.

Australian retail billionaire Solomon Lew has declared war on his Government's failure to charge GST for overseas goods bought online.

The woes of one-time market star Pumpkin Patch continue with one accounting professor saying the struggling retailer may now be worth more to shareholders broken up.